ETF comparison
ICSH vs IUSB
Both US Aggregate Bond.
iShares Ultra Short Duration Bond Active ETF · iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF
Holdings overlap
103 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of ICSH and IUSB would leave roughly 0.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
IUSB is 2 bps cheaper than ICSH. On a $100,000 position that's about $20/yr more in fees for ICSH.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with ICSH vs IUSB.
Top shared holdings
103 shared in total| # | Holding | In ICSH | In IUSB | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States Treasury | 0.31% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 2 | United States Treasury | 0.42% | 0.12% | 0.12% |
| 3 | BANK OF AMERICA CORP | 0.10% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 4 | GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC | 0.21% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 5 | WELLS FARGO & COMPANY | 0.23% | 0.02% | 0.02% |
| 6 | UBS AG STAMFORD CT | 0.22% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 7 | MORGAN STANLEY | 0.16% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 8 | CITIGROUP INC | 0.12% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 9 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.14% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 10 | CITIBANK NA | 0.23% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 11 | AMAZON.COM INC | 0.48% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
| 12 | SALESFORCE INC | 0.65% | 0.01% | 0.01% |
Only in ICSH
265 total- Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria/New York NY 0.91%
- BPCE SA 0.91%
- Marubeni Finance America LLC 0.77%
- Cooperatieve Rabobank UA/NY 0.74%
- Svenska Handelsbanken AB 0.72%
- MIZUHO BK LTD NEW YORK BRH INS 0.70%
- CDP Financial Inc 0.68%
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust NY 0.67%
- RWE AG 0.66%
- Bank of New Zealand 0.65%
Only in IUSB
17,941 total- Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. 0.41%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.37%
- United States of America 0.36%
- United States of America 0.35%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.34%
- United States of America 0.33%
- United States of America 0.33%
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Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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